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Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by Fr0styMatt88 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:25AM (#50494557)
Not defending NVIDIA by any stretch, but I think Intel is the only one that allows ‘enterprise’ features on their consumer cards, like SR-IOV.

Such a complete failure of the market that NVIDIA hasn’t had any real competition. All of the vendors abandoned PC gamers though. Though the price choke point is memory, not cores.

Which makes me curious, if AMD did another HBM-based card like the Vega series, would that RAM be cheaper now than GDDR?

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by kogepathic on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:43AM (#50494638)
> but I think Intel is the only one that allows ‘enterprise’ features on their consumer cards, like SR-IOV.

They do not. SR-IOV is only available on Arc Pro cards.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-SR-IOV-Only-For-Arc-Pro

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by doctorpangloss on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:44AM (#50494640)
> real competition?

many have asked why AMD doesn't make its GPUs cheaper.

lisa su and jensen huang not competing with each other on price and being related is as much of a coincidence as wuhan having a virology institute experimenting on COVID-19 and being the center of the COVID-19 outbreak

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by gizajob on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:57AM (#50494700)
Set up a competitor and undercut them.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by jurgenburgen on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:27AM (#50494854)
Patents make that difficult.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by chadgpt5 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @03:40AM (#50495243)
Don't let the tail wag the dog
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by devmor on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:03AM (#50494727)
> wuhan having a virology institute experimenting on COVID-19 and being the center of the COVID-19 outbreak

Wasn’t this debunked years ago?

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by jacquesm on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:09AM (#50494757)
That's not going to stop the OP from bringing it up time and again in unrelated threads.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by onecommentman on Saturday November 14, 2026 @03:22AM (#50495162)
Carthago delenda est.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by doctorpangloss on Saturday November 14, 2026 @10:50AM (#50497978)
I don't bring it up at all, ever, except here. Post histories are open. It's a jokey analogy. People are looking for exotic ways scarcity are made and it's usually just an agreement between two people made in a 15 minute phone call.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by RagnarD on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:09AM (#50494762)
No, it’s more thoroughly validated than most murder convictions.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by UberFly on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:29AM (#50494865)
All available evidence has only solidified the lab being the source of the virus.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by felixg3 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @03:50AM (#50495295)
It’s been confirmed by agencies around the world including the rather conservative German BND [0]. It’s not a conspiracy theory - it’s fact that COVID-19 is of Chinese lab leak origin. The only open question is whether that happened out of malice or stupidity.

[0]: https://www.dw.com/en/covid-pandemic-likely-unleashed-by-lab...

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by revachol on Saturday November 14, 2026 @06:39AM (#50496199)
No. A bunch of agencies have started favoring the lab leak hypothesis with low confidence after recently reassessing the evidence. The BND has apparently favored it from the very beginning. Some others still back zoonotic spillover.

In any case, I'd wager no non-Chinese intelligence agency has the evidence to ascertain COVID-19 origin one way or the other. Both the initial confidence in natural origin and now this new certainty in declaring the lab leak hypothesis a fact seem nonsensical to me.

Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by felixg3 on Saturday November 14, 2026 @07:38AM (#50496563)
Low confidence? The category of 80-95% is enough for confirmation at intelligence standards. Stop protecting the CCP.
Re:Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startu... by revachol on Saturday November 14, 2026 @09:57AM (#50497535)
I was specifically referring to US agencies here, see:

https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/ODNI-3-November...

> CIA now joins DOE and FBI in assessing the more likely cause of the first human COVID-19 infection was a research-related incident.

> CIA has low confidence in this judgment

> Given CIA's low confidence, credible new intelligence reporting or open-source information could prompt CIA to change its assessment.

> Four agencies and the National Intelligence Council (NIC) continue to assess that natural contact with an animal infected with SARS-CoV-2—or a closely related progenitor virus—was the most likely cause of the first human COVID-19 infection.

It's interesting that the BND has higher confidence in its assessment but not sufficient to support your statement that the lab leak hypothesis has "been confirmed by agencies around the world"